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All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.

In Australia, transitional justice is being undermined by politics. The Aboriginal community is trying to adapt to the failings of truth commissions following the recent change of government in Queensland. Photo: An Aboriginal man, with only his hands visible, burns herbs during a traditional smoking ceremony.
The retreating tide of transitional justice in Australia
24 January 2025 by Maxim Shanahan
There have been many setbacks for transitional justice in Australia in the past year. The latest one happened in the state of Queensland. A new Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry was shut down after the conservative opposition won [...]
A poster of Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on a street in Kabul in August 2023. © Wakil Kohsar / AFP ICC: Prosecutor targets Taliban leaders
23 January 2025 by AFP
After the most senior Russian, Israeli, Palestinian and Burmese leaders, it's now the turn of Afghan leaders to be targeted by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Karim Khan is asking the court to issue arres [...]
Trial of Russian soldier Voislav Torden in Finland for possible war crimes committed in Ukraine. Torden sits on a television screen during his trial, surrounded by his lawyers. Finland on the frontline for trying Russians for war crimes
23 January 2025 by Jeanette Björkqvist
Finland is the stage for an unusual trial, where a 37-year-old Russian citizen is charged with war crimes committed in Ukraine. Voislav Torden is accused of leading an ambush attack in which 22 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, incl [...]
Donald Trump became President of the United States again on 20 January 2025. What danger does this represent for the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Photo: Donald Trump (back) raises his fist. Can the ICC survive the U.S. sanctions? (Part 2)
21 January 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
The upcoming U.S. sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) are throwing the court into unknown territory. They have the potential to disable the institution. Individuals working for or even interacting with the Cou [...]
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Donald Trump becomes President of the United States again on 20 January 2025. What danger does this represent for the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Photo: Donald Trump (front) raises his fist.
20 January 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
Can the ICC survive the U.S. sanctions? (Part 1) Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill calling on the U.S. president to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) for any investigations into “protected persons” of the United States and its alli [...]
In Iraq, a Unitad team is carrying out exhumations at the site of a mass grave. Several people, some in white lab coats, are working around a hole dug in the ground in a desert area.
17 January 2025 by Bojan Gavrilovic
Navigating the accountability maze in post-UNITAD Iraq The blame game over UNITAD’s premature closure will not do anyone any good, says Bojan Gavrilovic, a human rights lawyer. Both Iraq and the UN should put the evidence that UNITAD has collected to their intended use by creating a s [...]
Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump scuffle as they wait for a verdict in Trump's hush money criminal trial outside Manhattan Criminal Court on May 29, 2024 in New York City.
16 January 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Pursuing universal jurisdiction on the eve of Trump’s era If there is a strong sense that there will be a before Trump II and an after – for the United States as well as for the world – this podcast will stand as how America was right before. It was recorded by our partners at Asymmetric [...]
Drawings of Azriel Bibliowicz and Ricardo Silva Romero, two Colombian writers.
14 January 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Writing about crimes you can’t forget Two Colombian writers put language to horrors that could finally see justice this year in their country. The main characters of their novels are close relatives of victims – those for whom the crime continues long after it was com [...]
Central African Republic - Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Rhombot Yekatom before the International Criminal Court (ICC): what sentences could they face?
13 January 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
Last words in the Yekatom and Ngaïssona trial It is four years that Alfred Rhombot Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona have been on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Central African Republic [...]
Ian Lundin, former chairman of the Swedish oil company Lundin Oil, speaks to the press during his trial in Sweden for alleged complicity in war crimes commited in Sudan.
10 January 2025 by Olivier Truc
Ian Lundin finally speaks In a Stockholm trial that started in September 2023, two directors of Swedish oil company Lundin Oil are charged with complicity in war crimes committed in Sudan between 1997 and 2003. Answering questions, company chairman Ian Lun [...]
Climate justice - Arnold Kiel Loughman (Attorney General of the Republic of Vanuatu) pleads before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for polluting states to be held responsible for the effects of climate change.
9 January 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Climate justice: who argued what at the ICJ The hearings in the climate case before the International Court of Justice wrapped up last December in The Hague. The court’s advisory opinion is expected within a year. Countries from the Global South and small states from the Pa [...]
In Syria, after the fall of Assad, the search for the disappeared often begins in mass graves. Photo: People digging at the bottom of a deep mass grave while children watch from above.
7 January 2025 by Luis Fondebrider
Syria: getting it right in the search for the disappeared Since the fall of the Assad regime a month ago, many reports told the stories of Syrians trying to find out about their relatives who had disappeared. Infamous detention centers have revealed their murderous secrets. Mass graves w [...]
Sihem Bensedrine, the former chairwoman of Tunisia's truth commission, is in prison. Many human rights organisations believe that the government is seeking to undermine transitional justice efforts.
6 January 2025 by Amin Taieb
Tunisia: why Bensedrine is in jail Sihem Bensedrine, the former president of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission between 2014 and 2018, has been in pre-trial detention since 1 August 2024. Her lawyers have been fighting for her release ever since, denouncing “a [...]
2024 - The year of international justice in pictures
20 December 2024 by Justice Info
2024 - A year of international justice in pictures Justice Info is taking a break between 23 December and 5 January. But until we see you again, here are ten powerful images from 2024.
Trial of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (Ali Kushayb) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Sudan (Darfur).
19 December 2024 by Margherita Capacci
The first Darfur trial ended at the ICC The first trial at the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, came to an end, 20 years after the charged crimes. During the closing statements, from 11 to 13 December 2024, the prosecution stated that [...]
In Ukraine, a military prisoner, sitting on a chair, is guarded by a soldier in the background, in what looks like an interrogation room.
17 December 2024 by Vladyslava Kobko
Ukraine: a two-time deserter convicted of high treason A native of Donetsk region who was mobilized twice and deserted twice, first from the army of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) and then from the Ukrainian army, repented in front of the Kostopil district court in the [...]
In Gambia, Yahya Jammeh near the presidential car, escorted by ‘junglers’ (his bodyguards).
16 December 2024 by AFP
Gambia: ECOWAS revises its position The Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), meeting in Abuja on Sunday, "took the historic decision to establish a special tribunal for the Gambia", announced the Gambian Ministry o [...]
In Liberia, a statue of Prince Y. Johnson has been erected in front of apartment blocks. A group of young people surround it, some sitting on the pedestal.
16 December 2024 by Aaron Weah
Prince Y. Johnson: The Great Escape  Prince Y. Johnson was one of Liberia’s most feared and charismatic warlords, and yet he had managed to reinvent himself as a born-again Christian preacher and a popular politician in post-war Liberia. His death at the age of 72 le [...]
International justice for Bashar al-Assad's crimes in Syria. Photo: Broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad next to documents.
13 December 2024 by Franck Petit
“We will follow them wherever they will go” Renowned Syrian lawyer Anwar al-Bunni and his colleagues at the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research have been leading figures in Syrian efforts for justice. In Europe, they have initiated, with other organizations, univer [...]